Patent 7246818 was granted and assigned to Takata Corporation on July, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A protecting device for an occupant of a vehicle includes: an airbag positioned to inflate along an interior side of a vehicle; an elongated inflator including a tube extending along the interior side of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; several openings in the tube positioned to allow inflation gas to enter and inflate the airbag.